Isn't that more of the good effects of Roe vs. Wade? After all, an adult or young scumbag needs only 5 min, 2 hours max to get a girl pregnant. Is not like they will be worried about the long term consequences of an unwanted child.
A primary hurdle the team had to overcome was proving that the nematodes had not come into the mines on the shoes or clothing of miners or through mine ventilation water. The contamination issue was resolved through extensive testing of the soil and mining water, which contains two disinfectant bleaches that would kill nematodes.
In the case of I 131 in most of the surrounding environment around Fukushima Daiichi the concentrations are below dangerous levels. The most contaminated areas with I 131 are the sea water intakes and screens of the damaged units. On the ground and in the air the concentration of I 131 is low enough that the personnel is not under any risk if they follow appropriate safety procedures.
My personal take on the current nuclear mess is that operators of Nuclear Power Stations should have got from the very beginning licenses for the actual reactor(s) being built and a license for a new unit or units built in 30 - 35 years later with most modern technology in the same site enforceable only if they decommission the old unit. In this way, the site remains permanently manned and cared, the support infrastructure of the central and transmission lines get used to their maximum potential and operators get a incentive and a clear upgrade path to renew their nuclear power stations, beyond politics, but also beyond the greediness of most investors.
The slower trains generally use the same rolling stock of Nozomi, N700, the difference in times is that the Hikari and Kodama services do more stops along the route but aside the different tracks inside some stations the main line is the same IIRC.
The trains get so packed that you have people standing on corridors and doorways. I did that 3 hour trip in the Hikari, and despite having to stand up for around 1 hour and half, it was surprisingly far less bad than what I expected. What americans are thinking of a "train station" is what they have has relics from the 1930's when modern train stations in Japan are in reality big fancy packed malls with railroad tracks as a plus.
At this point, I expect that the computer crimes units of the respective countries will find the criminal assholes that are doing this and put them in prison where they belong. They are not doing this because they are fighting "The Man", they are doing this because they want to defraud and steal the money that other people have earned by an honest work. From your line of thought, you could also say that is no problem that death squads kill addicts in rehabilitation centers since the drug lords wouldn't have earned any money if not for those addicts.
What they should have done since Safari 2 is to uncheck by default the "Open safe files" preference in Safari. That option enabled by default is almost like they are begging for malware to happen since it auto mounts program distribution disk images.
Since most high end servers last in service at least 6 years, I guess that most sales come from the fact that Oracle touts the Oracle DB/Sparc combo as the fastest combination for running Oracle DB. That coupled with the fact that migration is "relatively" easy with Solaris 10 containers, for customers used to a system that only want it to be faster, that makes sense. Fujitsu, the fourth largest server seller, also manufactures a lot of Sparc equipment under its own brand and for Oracle itself.
Termal camera measurements, and instrumentation show that the temps inside the reactor pressure vessels are at 270 C max, bad because that means that still is coming radioactive steam from the damaged reactors, good since that means that even if most fuel has melted, it didn't became a bloob of molten fuel damaging even more the reactor pressure vessels, meaning that as bad has is has get up to now, we are not dealing with the fuel out in the open like in the case of the Chernobyl disaster. The submission was pointing to a very short on details press article, but from the horse's mouth:
Submission of a report on the operation of the plant based on the plant data etc. of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station at the time of the earthquake to Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
From the attached documents, we can see an english summary of the damage to the reactor cores in the best and worst case scenario, but if you can read japanese, this attachment: http://www.tepco.co.jp/cc/press/betu11_j/images/110524a.pdf
has a far more detailed analysis with real data and scans from the operation log and charts from the instrumentation at the operation rooms. The most interesting data aside reactor status and analysis is the table at page 138 that shows seismometer data. The highest readings detected was of accelerations of up to 550 gals at 4th floor of unit 2 and 302 gal at same's unit basement; so we can make an educated guess that the different outcome of the damage at this unit from its twin, unit 3 was influenced by the stronger effect from the earthquake.
I think that he is pointing that really is something very wrong with your society when the only good market for manufacturing jobs in a first world country like USA is small firearms. I am from Mexico, and I found that somehow depressing and wrong too, since the drug war that our puppet government is waging on USA's behalf are working in such a way that USA puts the guns and stoners, and we put the dead bodies.
Yup, the difference between the US political system and the one in China is that the Chinese Communist party is far more honest about the single party system than the US "Democrats" or "Republicans", and that currently the "communists" are better at managing a capitalist economy than the current american leadership. And before someone tells me that the guys in USA are more free, they are free to say or do anything has long has what they say or do don't threaten the status quo.
They haven't detected anything in the deep well from the power plant since 3 weeks at least. The most worrying contaminant released, cesium 137, has been detected mostly in soil northwest; and will be a cause of concern depending of how is accumulated by living beings. They have detected it in tea leaves, but still is unknown if it comes from rain/air or it was absorbed from soil
They can do this safely, for this reason we are only listening to news about Fukushima Daiichi, Onagawa NPS and despite being far closer to the epicenter didn't had any significant trouble. Tokai 2 NPS wasn't damaged by the tsunami either.In fact, the replica at 07/April/2011 was the one that damaged the external power lines to Onagawa, but still they had one working from 5. The main trouble for Fukushima is that the top brass at TEPCO didn't bothered to invest a few million dollars in tsunami countermeasures even when they know that the power plant was designed to withstand tsunamis bellow the ones recorded in the area. They didn't even put bullet proof doors at entrances of controlled buildings. But, if the regulators have done their job then they would have been forced to do it. Now, for saving a few millions TEPCO lost the second most important power plant for the company and lost billions.
From this map from MEXT, the shape will be like a lobe going up to 40 km Northwest from Fukushima Daiichi. The good news are that in a relatively short timeframe, they will reduce the evacuation zone at south and around Fukushima Daini.
More than engineering, they were gambling. The tsunami countermeasures that they are doing now are relatively so cheap and effective that is unforgettable that they didn't implemented them before. Also, is very damaging that Japan's Nuclear Safety Commission spent only 5 minutes the day of the disaster, that TEPCO in their early press releases for two days stated that they had of site power when clearly that was extremely improbable to say the least, that they spent almost 2 days without proper cooling and they didn't put boron inside the damn reactors or spent fuel pools until stuff started to burn or blow up. Even in the government owned power company that I work we don't treat safety in such an irresponsible way.
Amendments to the estimate value of the core damage ratio of Unit 1 to 3 of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station based on the measurement of the Containment Atmospheric Monitoring System
In the attachments in that link they show the revised core damage ratios for unit 1 from 55% to 70%, for unit 2 from 35% to 30%, for unit 3 from 30% to 25%. Also, since they started to inject boronated water since 13/march/2011 is almost impossible that the damaged fuel formed a radioactive lava bloob. Certainly, that damaged fuel is the cause of all the radioactive contamination coming out from the site since march 12th, and TEPCO should deal with the damage that the buildings had sustained from the fires and explosions, but they couldn't have taken a look inside the reactor unless they have removed the cover, something that is impossible to do at the moment. The leakages can be because corrosion from the salt water, cracks in building structure or damage on tubes, but still they have no direct way to know what is in the bottom of the core vessel. It was obvious from this series of reports that something was still leaking water outside: http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/11051211-e.html
Out flow of fluid containing radioactive materials to the ocean from areas near intake canal of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Unit 2 (continued report 38)
if you see pages 3 and 4 of the attachment, is clear that they had an uncontrolled release of radioactive water from an unknown point to the sea at least since April 30th, the graphs are like a jigsaw instead of a smooth descending line like in the previous days, but it appears that in order to showcase the evident success in some of the emergency works they tried to put under the rug the new troubles that they were having.
I would dare to say that the railway system of the USA is what gave them the supremacy position that they enjoy today. The fact that USA didn't had any damage in the mainland in both world wars wouldn't have yielded any advantage to americans without one of the best railways networks in the world at the time.
Yup, even for moderate pakistanis the current government looks like made of american peons, the last thing they need is a overt request from the american government to hand over the remains, it will make them to lose even more legitimacy in their countrymen eyes and make the operation blowback in a big way.
It is more likely that the top brass from the pakistani military was told of who was the dead target and that it was better for them to not lift a finger until the whole thing was over, because if it was because weakness, then the indian military can crush the pakistanis too, a bad prospect considering that both sides have their fair share of ultranationalist loons.
Here in Mexico we have a say:"Ahogado el niño, a tapar el pozo". "After the kid is drowned, the well gets a lid". That is what they are doing, basically. The proposal to build concrete walls around buildings and put water tight doors at the entrance of the buildings and inside several key parts inside buildings was something that they could have done with all the time in the world since 2007. Now is good to have those dikes, we don't really know when the next big earthquake/tsunami will hit the place, but if they had been more careful they would be only worried about putting the NPS back online, instead of having scuttled the whole station. Even from the most self interested capitalist pig POV makes sense to invest in the safety of the workers and buildings that make your money.
I didn't. They don't have close any airport that could land a big transport plane and even if they had it there was no way to transport the equipment from the airport to the NPS. The diesel generators were of 6.5 Mw, the pumps for the cooling systems need at least 1 Mw for each reactor. Anyway, since the electric interconnection equipment and maybe the pumps themselves were under water they really didn't had many choices from what they ended doing aside praying to $deity.
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Isn't that more of the good effects of Roe vs. Wade? After all, an adult or young scumbag needs only 5 min, 2 hours max to get a girl pregnant. Is not like they will be worried about the long term consequences of an unwanted child.
Thank God for that.
iAgree
A primary hurdle the team had to overcome was proving that the nematodes had not come into the mines on the shoes or clothing of miners or through mine ventilation water. The contamination issue was resolved through extensive testing of the soil and mining water, which contains two disinfectant bleaches that would kill nematodes.
In the case of I 131 in most of the surrounding environment around Fukushima Daiichi the concentrations are below dangerous levels. The most contaminated areas with I 131 are the sea water intakes and screens of the damaged units. On the ground and in the air the concentration of I 131 is low enough that the personnel is not under any risk if they follow appropriate safety procedures.
I hear they're going to shovel hippies into furnaces.
iAgree. This would be dobleplusgod.
My personal take on the current nuclear mess is that operators of Nuclear Power Stations should have got from the very beginning licenses for the actual reactor(s) being built and a license for a new unit or units built in 30 - 35 years later with most modern technology in the same site enforceable only if they decommission the old unit. In this way, the site remains permanently manned and cared, the support infrastructure of the central and transmission lines get used to their maximum potential and operators get a incentive and a clear upgrade path to renew their nuclear power stations, beyond politics, but also beyond the greediness of most investors.
The slower trains generally use the same rolling stock of Nozomi, N700, the difference in times is that the Hikari and Kodama services do more stops along the route but aside the different tracks inside some stations the main line is the same IIRC.
The trains get so packed that you have people standing on corridors and doorways. I did that 3 hour trip in the Hikari, and despite having to stand up for around 1 hour and half, it was surprisingly far less bad than what I expected. What americans are thinking of a "train station" is what they have has relics from the 1930's when modern train stations in Japan are in reality big fancy packed malls with railroad tracks as a plus.
At this point, I expect that the computer crimes units of the respective countries will find the criminal assholes that are doing this and put them in prison where they belong. They are not doing this because they are fighting "The Man", they are doing this because they want to defraud and steal the money that other people have earned by an honest work. From your line of thought, you could also say that is no problem that death squads kill addicts in rehabilitation centers since the drug lords wouldn't have earned any money if not for those addicts.
What they should have done since Safari 2 is to uncheck by default the "Open safe files" preference in Safari. That option enabled by default is almost like they are begging for malware to happen since it auto mounts program distribution disk images.
Since most high end servers last in service at least 6 years, I guess that most sales come from the fact that Oracle touts the Oracle DB/Sparc combo as the fastest combination for running Oracle DB. That coupled with the fact that migration is "relatively" easy with Solaris 10 containers, for customers used to a system that only want it to be faster, that makes sense. Fujitsu, the fourth largest server seller, also manufactures a lot of Sparc equipment under its own brand and for Oracle itself.
Termal camera measurements, and instrumentation show that the temps inside the reactor pressure vessels are at 270 C max, bad because that means that still is coming radioactive steam from the damaged reactors, good since that means that even if most fuel has melted, it didn't became a bloob of molten fuel damaging even more the reactor pressure vessels, meaning that as bad has is has get up to now, we are not dealing with the fuel out in the open like in the case of the Chernobyl disaster. The submission was pointing to a very short on details press article, but from the horse's mouth:
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/11052412-e.html
Press Release (May 24,2011)
Submission of a report on the operation of the plant based on the plant data etc. of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station at the time of the earthquake to Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
From the attached documents, we can see an english summary of the damage to the reactor cores in the best and worst case scenario, but if you can read japanese, this attachment:
http://www.tepco.co.jp/cc/press/betu11_j/images/110524a.pdf
has a far more detailed analysis with real data and scans from the operation log and charts from the instrumentation at the operation rooms. The most interesting data aside reactor status and analysis is the table at page 138 that shows seismometer data. The highest readings detected was of accelerations of up to 550 gals at 4th floor of unit 2 and 302 gal at same's unit basement; so we can make an educated guess that the different outcome of the damage at this unit from its twin, unit 3 was influenced by the stronger effect from the earthquake.
I think that he is pointing that really is something very wrong with your society when the only good market for manufacturing jobs in a first world country like USA is small firearms. I am from Mexico, and I found that somehow depressing and wrong too, since the drug war that our puppet government is waging on USA's behalf are working in such a way that USA puts the guns and stoners, and we put the dead bodies.
Yup, the difference between the US political system and the one in China is that the Chinese Communist party is far more honest about the single party system than the US "Democrats" or "Republicans", and that currently the "communists" are better at managing a capitalist economy than the current american leadership. And before someone tells me that the guys in USA are more free, they are free to say or do anything has long has what they say or do don't threaten the status quo.
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/betu11_e/images/110514e10.pdf
They haven't detected anything in the deep well from the power plant since 3 weeks at least. The most worrying contaminant released, cesium 137, has been detected mostly in soil northwest; and will be a cause of concern depending of how is accumulated by living beings. They have detected it in tea leaves, but still is unknown if it comes from rain/air or it was absorbed from soil
JAIF has published in 13/may/2011 a map of the radiation surveys by MEXT and US's DOE, with the radiation lecture in air 1m above ground, cesium 137 deposition in soil and marine contamination readings:
http://www.jaif.or.jp/english/news_images/pdf/ENGNEWS01_1305269890P.pdf
They can do this safely, for this reason we are only listening to news about Fukushima Daiichi, Onagawa NPS and despite being far closer to the epicenter didn't had any significant trouble. Tokai 2 NPS wasn't damaged by the tsunami either.In fact, the replica at 07/April/2011 was the one that damaged the external power lines to Onagawa, but still they had one working from 5. The main trouble for Fukushima is that the top brass at TEPCO didn't bothered to invest a few million dollars in tsunami countermeasures even when they know that the power plant was designed to withstand tsunamis bellow the ones recorded in the area. They didn't even put bullet proof doors at entrances of controlled buildings. But, if the regulators have done their job then they would have been forced to do it. Now, for saving a few millions TEPCO lost the second most important power plant for the company and lost billions.
From this map from MEXT, the shape will be like a lobe going up to 40 km Northwest from Fukushima Daiichi. The good news are that in a relatively short timeframe, they will reduce the evacuation zone at south and around Fukushima Daini.
http://www.mext.go.jp/component/english/__icsFiles/afieldfile/2011/05/10/1305904_042618.pdf
More than engineering, they were gambling. The tsunami countermeasures that they are doing now are relatively so cheap and effective that is unforgettable that they didn't implemented them before. Also, is very damaging that Japan's Nuclear Safety Commission spent only 5 minutes the day of the disaster, that TEPCO in their early press releases for two days stated that they had of site power when clearly that was extremely improbable to say the least, that they spent almost 2 days without proper cooling and they didn't put boron inside the damn reactors or spent fuel pools until stuff started to burn or blow up. Even in the government owned power company that I work we don't treat safety in such an irresponsible way.
TEPCO already has stated that they know that core was damaged, and amended their estimate after reviewing the new data in 27/April/2011, 2 weeks ago:
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/11042713-e.html
Amendments to the estimate value of the core damage ratio of Unit 1 to 3 of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station based on the measurement of the Containment Atmospheric Monitoring System
In the attachments in that link they show the revised core damage ratios for unit 1 from 55% to 70%, for unit 2 from 35% to 30%, for unit 3 from 30% to 25%. Also, since they started to inject boronated water since 13/march/2011 is almost impossible that the damaged fuel formed a radioactive lava bloob. Certainly, that damaged fuel is the cause of all the radioactive contamination coming out from the site since march 12th, and TEPCO should deal with the damage that the buildings had sustained from the fires and explosions, but they couldn't have taken a look inside the reactor unless they have removed the cover, something that is impossible to do at the moment. The leakages can be because corrosion from the salt water, cracks in building structure or damage on tubes, but still they have no direct way to know what is in the bottom of the core vessel. It was obvious from this series of reports that something was still leaking water outside:
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/11051211-e.html
Out flow of fluid containing radioactive materials to the ocean from areas near intake canal of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Unit 2 (continued report 38)
if you see pages 3 and 4 of the attachment, is clear that they had an uncontrolled release of radioactive water from an unknown point to the sea at least since April 30th, the graphs are like a jigsaw instead of a smooth descending line like in the previous days, but it appears that in order to showcase the evident success in some of the emergency works they tried to put under the rug the new troubles that they were having.
I would dare to say that the railway system of the USA is what gave them the supremacy position that they enjoy today. The fact that USA didn't had any damage in the mainland in both world wars wouldn't have yielded any advantage to americans without one of the best railways networks in the world at the time.
Yup, even for moderate pakistanis the current government looks like made of american peons, the last thing they need is a overt request from the american government to hand over the remains, it will make them to lose even more legitimacy in their countrymen eyes and make the operation blowback in a big way.
I agree with Black Parrot:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2131892&cid=36048998
It is more likely that the top brass from the pakistani military was told of who was the dead target and that it was better for them to not lift a finger until the whole thing was over, because if it was because weakness, then the indian military can crush the pakistanis too, a bad prospect considering that both sides have their fair share of ultranationalist loons.
Here in Mexico we have a say:"Ahogado el niño, a tapar el pozo". "After the kid is drowned, the well gets a lid". That is what they are doing, basically. The proposal to build concrete walls around buildings and put water tight doors at the entrance of the buildings and inside several key parts inside buildings was something that they could have done with all the time in the world since 2007. Now is good to have those dikes, we don't really know when the next big earthquake/tsunami will hit the place, but if they had been more careful they would be only worried about putting the NPS back online, instead of having scuttled the whole station. Even from the most self interested capitalist pig POV makes sense to invest in the safety of the workers and buildings that make your money.
I didn't. They don't have close any airport that could land a big transport plane and even if they had it there was no way to transport the equipment from the airport to the NPS. The diesel generators were of 6.5 Mw, the pumps for the cooling systems need at least 1 Mw for each reactor. Anyway, since the electric interconnection equipment and maybe the pumps themselves were under water they really didn't had many choices from what they ended doing aside praying to $deity.